11-18-2011, 07:02 AM
In hindsight my argument could be construed as a call for mandatory sterilisation, which I promise it isn't
(Though if the armband fits...) That said I don't think it's unreasonable to ask (not force) parents to make sure they're at least financially secure enough to feed their child three square meals a day before pro-creating. I find it kind of shocking that some kids rely on the free school dinners program for their most substantial daily meal. It also annoys me that people seem to be more in uproar about school dinners than they are the lack of books and equipment. I can't help but think that if my school focused less on appeasing health Nazis we'd have been able to work with textbooks which didn't have knobs drawn all over them.
(Though if the armband fits...) That said I don't think it's unreasonable to ask (not force) parents to make sure they're at least financially secure enough to feed their child three square meals a day before pro-creating. I find it kind of shocking that some kids rely on the free school dinners program for their most substantial daily meal. It also annoys me that people seem to be more in uproar about school dinners than they are the lack of books and equipment. I can't help but think that if my school focused less on appeasing health Nazis we'd have been able to work with textbooks which didn't have knobs drawn all over them.
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe